Xavier Aptitude Test 2013 Paper

Question : 63 of 121

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Ramesh bought a total of 6 fruits (apples and oranges) from the market. He found that he required one orange less to extract the same quantity of juice as extracted from apples. If Ramesh had sed the same number of apples and oranges to make the blend, then which of the following correctly represents the percentage of apple juice in the blend?

25%
33.3%
60%
60.6%
None of the above

Validate

Solution:

(e) Since, 2 oranges and 3 apples contributed equal volume of juice. Let that be ‘x’ each.
∴ Making a total of ‘2x’ volume.
But instead, he used 3 oranges
⇒ oranges contributed = x + 0.5x = 1.5x volume (x for 2 oranges and 0.5x for the extra orange)
Now the total volume of juice
= 1.5x + x = 2.5 x (∴ 1.5 x for oranges and x for apples)
∴ The percentage of contribution of apples

=\ {\ {x}}/{2.5 \ {x}} \×100=40 \%

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